Nevada Sees 4.4 Tremor Near Alamo, Earthquake California Alert

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake shook Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge about 17 miles southwest of Alamo, Nevada, shortly after 8 a.m. local time on Wednesday, April 29, as earthquake california readers tracked another Nevada tremor. Shaking was felt in Las Vegas, roughly 60 miles south of the epicenter.

Alamo and Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge

The quake hit near Alamo with no word on the extent of any damage. The USGS reported aftershocks up to magnitude 3.2 after the earthquake, including one recorded in almost the exact same location about 30 minutes later.

Nevada earthquake activity

Nevada has had dozens of earthquakes recorded in the past few weeks. On April 13, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake rattled western Nevada and northern California, with aftershocks ranging from magnitude 2.5 to 3.6 and an estimated intensity of VI on the Mercalli intensity scale.

That April 13 quake moved some heavy furniture and brought reports of fallen plaster and minor damage. Nevada and California have faced many large earthquakes in the last 150 years, according to the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, and the largest earthquake in Nevada history was a magnitude 7.6 event on Oct. 3, 1915.

USGS aftershocks

The sequence around Alamo adds another entry to that recent run. The 3.2 aftershock, arriving about 30 minutes after the main quake, gave seismologists a second reading in nearly the same spot rather than a widely scattered sequence.